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detecting-sandbox-evasion-behavior

Detects sandbox and analysis evasion techniques in a sample by scanning static strings, imports, and API traces for VM artifact checks, timing/sleep stalls, anti-debug calls, and environment fingerprinting. Activates for requests to detect sandbox evasion, find anti-VM or anti-debug checks, or explain why a sample did not detonate.

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Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

Detecting Sandbox Evasion Behavior

When to Use

  • A sample ran inertly in a sandbox and you suspect evasion.
  • You want to enumerate anti-VM, anti-debug, timing, and environment-fingerprinting checks from static strings/imports and/or an API trace.

Do not use this to conclude a sample is benign — evasion is itself a malicious signal, and absence of detected checks does not prove there are none.

Prerequisites

  • The sample (read inertly) and optionally a JSON API trace.

Safety & Handling

  • Read bytes statically; never execute the sample to "see if it evades."

Workflow

Step 1: Scan for evasion indicators

python scripts/analyst.py scan sample.bin

Searches for VM/sandbox artifact strings (VMware, VBOX, vmtoolsd, sbiedll, common sandbox usernames/hostnames), anti-debug APIs (IsDebuggerPresent, CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent, NtQueryInformationProcess), timing stalls (Sleep, GetTickCount, rdtsc), and CPUID checks.

Step 2: Categorize techniques

Group hits into anti-VM, anti-debug, anti-sandbox, and timing/stalling categories.

Step 3: Recommend bypass and report

Suggest analysis adjustments (patch sleeps, hardened VM, hooking) and map findings to ATT&CK.

Validation

  • Detected indicators are grouped by evasion category.
  • Findings distinguish static-string evidence from API-trace evidence when both are provided.
  • Each category maps to an ATT&CK technique/subtechnique.

Pitfalls

  • False positives from benign software that also queries the environment — corroborate.
  • Strings can be obfuscated; absence of plaintext artifacts is not absence of evasion.
  • Confusing a hung sample with deliberate stalling without timing evidence.

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